A 1978 Ferrari 308 GTB in Photos
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This 1978 Ferrari 308 GTB sold through the 2022 RM Sotheby’s Paris auction for €80,500 (around $83,750 at today’s conversion rate).
The artist behind the car was Pininfarina’s Leonardo Fioravanti, among the most prolific Italian car designers of his age, and whose signature is on Ferrari’s Daytona, 512, Testarossa, and so many other benchmark designs.
This interior, with its prominent gear shift for the five-speed manual gearbox, is dressed in Crema upholstery.
The 3.0-liter V-8 in this example, with its dry sump lubrication system, makes 237 hp.
The 308 GTB shown here has a steel body from Scaglietti.
Purists will likely prefer a proper berlinetta—the GTB—over the fun-in-the-sun GTS.
Four-wheel independent suspension, disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering, and an approximate 3,300-pound weight promise an intimate and responsive driving experience.
More than 12,000 examples of the 308 were made in total through 1985, a record for the manufacturer at the time.